as in explosive
capable of catching or being set on fire
don't store oily rags and other combustible materials in a hot attic
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Recent Examples of combustible
The Food and Drug Administration wants to limit nicotine in cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products, a move the outgoing Biden administration and anti-smoking advocates have said could make smoking a lot less addictive and easier to quit.
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Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
The Los Angeles fires are a nightmarish glimpse of a more combustible age.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2025
The question is whether Ms. Wiles will be able to handle the combustible Mr. Trump in the White House and survive.
—Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
The California code also includes rules for vegetation management and landscaping to reduce combustible matter on a property.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
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Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
The Los Angeles fires are a nightmarish glimpse of a more combustible age.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2025
The question is whether Ms. Wiles will be able to handle the combustible Mr. Trump in the White House and survive.
—Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
The California code also includes rules for vegetation management and landscaping to reduce combustible matter on a property.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for combustible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for combustible
Adjective
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The mentor Steffen’s 6-foot-3 frame and increasingly explosive athleticism are nothing to scoff at, but his superpower isn’t necessarily physical.—
Braidon Nourse,
The Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, the Americans stifled the explosive Canada offense by limiting the Canadians to 26 shots.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But the Warriors traded no risk, no reward for a flammable, ceiling-raising swing.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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They were crowded together, next to flammable brushland, and accessed by narrow, winding roads that struggled to accommodate two-way traffic or firetrucks.—
Jenny Jarvie,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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And all this against an inflammable backdrop of geopolitical crises including but not limited to the Israel-Hamas war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.—
John Leicester,
Quartz,
15 Apr. 2024
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Heat also stresses old electrical systems — insulation breaks down; lubricants in relays dry out — and a not-insignificant amount of the subway’s electrical wiring dates to the 1920s and 1930s, some of it cloth-covered, inflammable, and pervious to water.—
Curbed,
Curbed,
28 July 2023
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Soto came up as a young player in a Washington Nationals clubhouse seeing players with a variety of different personalities in leadership roles, like the fiery Max Scherzer, the flashy Bryce Harper, the business-like Stephen Strasburg and longtime veterans like Ryan Zimmerman and Howie Kendrick.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
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The dangers of replicating humans and the potential for unethical abuse of the technology are stressed in a dour warning by a senior official on Earth, played with fiery authority in her final screen role by the redoubtable Haydn Gwynne, to whom the film is dedicated.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Combustible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/combustible. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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